emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (12/03/89)
In article <451@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu>, bogstad@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad <bogstad>) writes: I'm trying to setup my rn macro file with lines of the following form in order to preferentially read messages by certain people. I seem to have problems if I add more then 3 or 4 names to the list. (A "Badly compiled patter" message results.) ip /From:.*\\(henry@utzoo\\)\\|\\(Chris Torek\\)/h^M Is there a better way to do this? Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? I'm doing this with a KILL file in gnus. Here's comp.lang.c.KILL: (gnus-kill "" "FTP" "u") (gnus-kill "From" "Torek" "u") (gnus-kill "From" "henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)" "u") (gnus-kill "Subject" ".") (gnus-expunge "X") This looks for the text "FTP" in every article and marks those unread, and also marks anything from Chris or Henry as unread. Then it marks as read everything else. It's not a solution in rn, but if you have gnus available to you it might be worth a try. I'm trying to read comp.all, just looking for the string "FTP" -- whatever else catches my eye, I add into the kill file, which is more like an un-kill file in this case. [gnus is an emacs interface to news, by the way -- ftp it from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.] --Ed